Hacker News: platz

New comment by platz in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

platz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:59:39 +0000

A democracy means political authority ultimately comes from the people.

New comment by platz in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

platz — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:07:24 +0000

What exactly is 'sustainability'

New comment by platz in "OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available"

platz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:26:12 +0000

I like how OBS has subsumed (often low-quality) screen recording apps for me; apart from the apps original intent for streaming

New comment by platz in "Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality"

platz — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:56:27 +0000

if your definition requires universal observer agreement you already have that issue with special relativity / light cones / the spacetime metric.

many worlds posits a single universal quantum state it's just only partially accessible to observers, which is different from saying that it simply doesn't objectively exist.

maybe it depends on your definition of objective

New comment by platz in "Death to type classes"

platz — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:15:18 +0000

peak FP debate was 2015/2016-ish

New comment by platz in "Death to type classes"

platz — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:28:27 +0000

In the 2010-2020 era, readers of Hacker News used to know how to read Haskell and had strong opinions (pro and con) of it.

That era is now over.

New comment by platz in "Shooting the Moon: Art of Lunar Photography (2023)"

platz — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:20:19 +0000

I assume it depends on the amount of detail you're expecting to get.

Generally there are some broad categories:

1) tracked vs untracked mounts

2) shooting single frames vs shooting with high FPS and processing that into a resulting image.

New comment by platz in "Why do we get earworms?"

platz — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:35:52 +0000

whoever came up with the name 'earworm' needs to be shot

New comment by platz in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

platz — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:45:46 +0000

Boltzmann Brains usually mean something is wrong in your cosmology

New comment by platz in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

platz — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:09:41 +0000

Licenses communicate your intent; if you choose the most permissive one possible that is also implicitly communicated.

New comment by platz in "Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet"

platz — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:12:41 +0000

Actually, we're already past the peak of star formation in the universe. So the universe is well on its way winding down.. less and less stars are being created. We're seeing the universe more middle aged than especially young

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/s/0oVjIo0XMi

New comment by platz in "James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise"

platz — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:55:16 +0000

Where did the the values of the coupling constants between the various fields come from?

There are many parameters that do not have a reason for their value.

New comment by platz in "Scientists Discover New Heavy-Metal Molecule 'Berkelocene'"

platz — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:32:59 +0000

learning

New comment by platz in "Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date"

platz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:50:26 +0000

can we just come up with one common term to to refer to all of my these between sites

New comment by platz in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

platz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:41:39 +0000

How do you know the bird just isn't entertaining itself with its own reflection.

New comment by platz in "I'm starting to suspect my work is incompatible with a full-time academic job"

platz — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:26:19 +0000

But there's nowhere to put your coffee mug

New comment by platz in ""A computer can never be held accountable""

platz — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:44:11 +0000

the owner

Deep-learning design of multi-port radio-frequency integrated circuits

platz — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:40:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42909728

Points: 1

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New comment by platz in "IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star"

platz — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:04:16 +0000

It's not in the habitable zone 100% of the time because of its eccentric orbit.

New comment by platz in "Show HN: Compile C to Not Gates"

platz — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:48:54 +0000

How is a jump realized by Not Gates?